I previously blogged the lists of the Top 10 law schools in eleven categories posted on Princeton Review's web site in connection with its publication of the 2011 edition of Best 172 Law Schools (with the University of Cincinnati College of Law again on the cover). The rankings are the result of Princeton Review's survey of 18,000 students at the 172 law schools, along with school statistics provided by administrators.

I have extracted from the individual profiles of the 172 law schools all of the available data to rank the schools in six categories. I will report each day on one of the ranking categories.

Professors Accessible Rating: Based on law student opinion. We asked law students to rate how accessible the law faculty members at their schools are on a scale from 60 to 99.

Here are the law schools with the most and least accessible professors:

School

Score

School

Score

1

Duke

99

146

Capital

71

Pepperdine

99

Chicago Kent

71

3

Boston University

98

Connecticut

71

Texas Tech

98

Florida

71

5

Mercer

97

Indiana - Indianapolis

71

Virginia

97

Southwestern

71

7

CUNY

96

Whittier

71

Wake Forest

96

William Mitchell

71

9

Richmond

95

154

Albany

70

10

Florida State

94

Miami

70

Regent

94

Syracuse

70

12

Chapman

93

157

NY Law School

69

Loyola-L.A.

93

West Virginia

69

Samford

93

159

Cleveland State

68

Stanford

93

160

Columbia

67

16

Alabama

92

161

St. John's

66

St. Thomas (MN)

92

162

Hofstra

65

W. New England

92

163

Appalachian

64

19

Arizona

91

George Mason

64

Texas Wesleyan

91

Minnesota

64

UC-Davis

91

166

SUNY-Buffalo

63

22

Chicago

90

167

Yale

62

Creighton

90

168

Cornell

61

Idaho

90

Harvard

61

Kansas

90

John Marshall

61

LSU

90

SMU

61

New Mexico

90

Southern

61

Northwestern

90

Southern Illinois

90

Unfortunately, the Princeton Review did not release the response rate per school, so it is impossible to determine how the rankings are affected by each school's representation among the respondents.